kind of both, actually. I’ll demonstrate with an example.
I’ve tagged several artists with “awesomename”, including NǽnøĉÿbbŒrğ VbëřřĦōlökäävsŦ (Nanocyborg Uberholocaust). however, if you look at the tags page for the artist, you don’t see awesomename. that’s because someone downvoted my tag. I can still see it when I look at the artist though
also, if you’re pulling your tags using an external program, (for example, genre tags in Picard), I’m 98% sure it will pull all your tags, including any that others have downvoted
Also Picard will currently use the genres from recordings, releases and release groups for each track. The artist genre’s will only be used if there are no genres specified on the other levels and if you have activated the “Fall back on album’s artist genres” (see your screenshot).
So if you want to have “christmas music” show up as a genre for this album you should add that to the release or release group.
But actually the only christmas related song seems to be River, and that one is already tagged as christmas music. Does this tag show up for you?
just checked and the ‘Christmas Music’ genre appears in my list! Why would your vote make it appear for me when it already appears for @outsidecontext ?
I noticed that difference between your setup and mine when you asked for a screenshot of my options and tried it out before I uploaded my options screenshot… it didn’t make any difference!